Do you think computers are destroying the world?
Are computers destroying the world?
Well, as far as I've been able to discover, the Terminator movies were not documentaries.
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The internet is good for some things but it is now destroying mankind, because we are letting computers take over.
The internet has so much false information that it's hard to know what's false and what isn't, which is very anxiety-triggering.
People no longer have privacy, everything's recorded. Someone could be in need of help but all people prefer to do is to film it rather than phone for an ambulance or help them.
The internet is destroying local businesses and it'd be sad not having that sense of community any more.
Too much hacking and scams going on.
Society is forcing people to use the internet more and more every day but when applying for financial support if you're unemployed, you don't get any help towards your internet bill because they still consider it a luxury.
As a form of protest I refuse to use Amazon and Netflix and other internet sites and businesses that are destroying mankind. It makes my life harder but it feels worth it to me.
I prefer to use my brain rather than revolve my whole life around a computer.
Please don't be annoying and call me a hypocrite for using WP all the time when knowing I dislike the computer era. Like I said, the internet is useful for some things but I don't let it control my life.
Doesn't it seem funny that the coronavirus mostly kills the elderly (the generation with the least knowledge of today's technology) but hardly affects children (the generation with the most knowledge of today's technology and are our future)? I think China wants everybody to become screen slaves sooner rather than later.
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People with computers destroy worlds.
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Thanks for putting a word in for my livelihood folks.
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The internet has so much false information that it's hard to know what's false and what isn't, which is very anxiety-triggering.
There is just as much false information as it was in any media since humans learned how to communicate, but we have immediate access to information from countless sources, it makes it much easier to detect BS.
But it also means transparency. A lot of shady stuff is less likely to happen because any bystander can record and stream it live. You can't easily destroy camera and film to cover anything like it was 50 years ago. GPS and mobile phones make emergency situations magnitudes or order less dangerous.
Internet made it easier for many local businesses to be discovered and in many instances easier to compete against giant corporations.
Before internet scammers could get away with the same scam for decades moving from city to city, now information spreading in a matter of hours and you can easily google to verify any claims and call BS. Before internet check or credit card forgery could be detected only days or weeks later, it was much easier to steal this way.
Blaming and fear mongering is not new. It was the same with books, comics, radio, movies, television. Now it's internet/social networks. Nothing new here.
Social networks don't make people depressed. Depressed people turn to social networks to cope.
Internet doesn't destroy the world, sh***y people use internet to do sh***y things like any other available tool.
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Many things are already destroyed and ruined in the name of dependence and convenience, out of ignorance and apathy.
It matters not how. Or why. Or with what. It is simply because humans can.
And will because of demand, or that because they cannot let it go of what it is sustains that dependence. Or their idea of progress is.
Or merely because everyone else is doing it too.
Making humanity 'convenient' by making them dependent of said convenience is just one of the many ways to do it.
Computers are not destroying the world.
Those who are exploiting it do.
It is not about the rock.
It's the ones who's throwing it where and to whatever end.
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More than a small amount of adults these days complain about kids & teens staying home using the net instead of going out & doing stuff but kids & teens are aLOT more likely to get shot, mugged, beat up, raped, & join gangs by going out & doing things like going to school & playing in public parks than they would staying home on the net all day.
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I am so grateful that computers and İnternet exist. Back when i was a child i spent all my time reading books. If the internet didn't exist i would have much less ways of expressing myself and i would be much less functioning too i think. I would have committed suicide long ago maybe.
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